Jean Shepherd Quotes
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
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It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.
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It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
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Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.
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I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
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The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
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In a dead religion there are no more heresies.
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...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.
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It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.
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I started playing in a band when I was eleven years old. We did a three piece, and we started playing instrumentals.
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It would have been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.
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That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.
